2022 was another great year for books and I managed to reach the goal I had set for myself on the Goodreads Reading Challenge. Although there were still plenty of other books that I would have liked to have read that are waiting for me on my ever increasing TBR but life in general can get in the way. But one thing I feel it’s important to do is to always make time for reading. It helps me forget about what may be going on in the world and helps relieve the stress from my work at times when things get a bit too much. I’ve already participating in a number of blog tours this year and I’m sure that number will grow as I see lots of new books published that I wish to read and help publicise.
But below is a list of some of the books that I am really looking forward to reading this year. Most are publishing within the first half of the year and one or two do not yet have a final cover. One I couldn’t even find a blurb for but I know I want to read them all as lots are trusted authors of mine and one is a new author and the cover just made me want to read it. What are you looking forward to reading in the coming months? Let me know in the comments below.
Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt will be published on May 23rd.
1928, Paris
A boy is found, moments from death, and taken in by a kindly family. Gentle, precocious, talented, he flourishes in his new home, and the family show him a life he hadn’t dreamed possible. But he refuses to speak a word about who he really is.
As he grows into a young man, falling in love and taking classes at the prestigious Conservatoire de Paris, he can almost forget the terrors of his past, or the promise he has vowed to keep. But across Europe an evil is rising, and no-one’s safety is certain. In his heart, he knows the time will come where he must flee once more.
2008, the Aegean
The seven sisters are gathered together for the first time, on board the Titan to say a final goodbye to the enigmatic father they loved so dearly.To the surprise of everyone, it is the missing sister who Pa Salt has chosen to entrust with the clue to their pasts. But for every truth revealed, another question emerges. The sisters must confront the idea that their adored father was someone they barely knew. And even more shockingly: that these long-buried secrets may still have consequences for them today.
Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt I’m sure is on in numerable people’s lists of books they are looking forward to in 2023. It’s the final book in the Seven Sisters series by Lucinda Riley and following her passing, her son Harry Whittaker has written and completed the series. This has to be one of my all time favourite series and I can’t wait to see how everything ties together. In a video I watched recently Harry promised that readers will get all the answers to every single question and they won’t be disappointed. I hope that is the case although I know I will be disappointed as there will be nothing else left to read from the wonderful author that was Lucinda Riley.
Strange Sally Diamond will be published on March 2nd.
Sally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father told her to do, to put him out with the rubbish when he died.
Now Sally is the centre of attention, not only from the hungry media and police detectives, but also a sinister voice from a past she cannot remember. As she begins to discover the horrors of her childhood, Sally steps into the world for the first time, making new friends and big decisions, and learning that people don't always mean what they say.
But who is the man observing Sally from the other side of the world? And why does her neighbour seem to be obsessed with her? Sally's trust issues are about to be severely challenged . . .
I have to confess that I have already read, Strange Sally Diamond, the long awaited new book from Liz Nugent. It was my last read of 2022 because I couldn’t leave it waiting for me on my Kindle and all I can say was it was phenomenal. A five star read all the way. It’s dark, gripping and full of twists and turns and Liz has outdone herself. It will be a huge success upon publication and I urge everyone to read it.
No One Saw A Thing will be published on May 11th.
No one saw it happen.
You stand on a crowded tube platform in London. Your two little girls jump on the train ahead of you. As you try to join them, the doors slide shut and the train moves away, leaving you behind.
Everyone is lying.
By the time you get to the next stop, you've convinced yourself that everything will be fine. But you soon start to panic, because there aren't two children waiting for you on the platform. There's only one.
Someone is to blame.
Has your other daughter got lost? Been taken by a passing stranger? Or perhaps the culprit is closer to home than you think? No one is telling the truth, and the longer the search continues, the harder she will be to find...
Andrea Mara just gets better and better with each book and deserves all the praise and acclaim she receives. At the time of writing I am already halfway through No One Saw A Thing as again I couldn’t leave this sitting waiting to be read. Every mother’s worst nightmare comes to fruition when Sive’s daughter Faye goes missing from a train in London and so sets in motion a whole chain of events where every character needs to be watched as no one can be trusted and lies and twists and turns abound. I’m dying to know how this one ends but I know as is customary with Andrea Mara she will leave us hanging until the very last word.
Homecoming will be published on April 13th.
Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959.
At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek in the grounds of a grand and mysterious mansion, a local delivery man makes a terrible discovery. A police investigation is called and the small town of Tumbilla becomes embroiled in one of the most shocking and perplexing murder cases in the history of South Australia.
Sixty years later, Jess is a journalist in search of a story. Having lived and worked in London for almost twenty years, she now finds herself laid off from her full-time job and struggling to make ends meet. A phone call out of nowhere summons her back to Sydney, where her beloved grandmother, Nora, who raised Jess when her mother could not, has suffered a fall and been raced to the hospital.
At a loose end in Nora's house, Jess does some digging into her past. In Nora's bedroom, she discovers a true crime book, chronicling the police investigation into a long-buried tragedy: the Turner Family Tragedy of Christmas Eve, 1959. It is only when Jess skims through the book that she finds a shocking connection between her own family and this once-infamous crime – a crime that has never been truly solved. And for a journalist without a story, a cold case might be the best distraction she can find . . .
I have to confess it’s been a very long time since I read a book by Kate Morton, even though I know the gaps between each publication grow longer and longer but I didn’t read her last book, The Clockmaker’s Daughter, as some of the reviews put me off. I know I shouldn’t have looked at them but I did. I fell in love with her books when she first published The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden which were outstanding and brought her worldwide acclaim. This new book Homecoming has such a beautiful cover and having read the blurb I get the sense that it has returned to more of her earlier style (well I hope so). There is a buzz about this book and I would love to get my hands on an early copy but I will have to wait as the book is not published until April 13th.
The Moonlight Gardening Club will be published on April 20th .
New friends. New beginnings. Old secrets…
Though they come from the same small Irish village, lonely widow Ruby and struggling single mother Frankie couldn’t be more different.
Then they discover the Moonlight Gardening Club, founded to remind its members that even on the darkest of nights, beauty and light can still be found. As they plant flowers chosen specially to be enjoyed under a carpet of stars in the gentle glow of moonlight, an unexpected friendship starts to bloom – and it might be just what each of them needs.
But when shocking secrets from the past are revealed, both their worlds are turned upside down. If their friendship is going to survive, each of them must face what they’ve been running from…
Rosie Hannigan is the only new author for me on this list and really I came across this book by accident on Amazon and added it to my wish list. I just love the cover and title and it’s always great to discover a new Irish author and the blurb sounds like it will be a lovely read.
A Summer Surprise at the Little Boathouse will be published on April 30th.
When Bea Fernsby discovers her fiancé’s eyes have been wandering, she calls off the wedding and hits the road. The village of Heartcross in the Scottish Highlands is about as far away fromhome as she can get, and when she stumbles into the ideal summer job at The Little Blue Boathouse and meets gorgeous vacationer Nolan Hemingway, things finally start looking up.
Now, as an old mystery surfaces and Bea and Nolan band together to find out what happened to his late grandfather’s one true love, fate throws Bea some unexpected curveballs…and promising opportunities.
Bea’s stay is only supposed to last a couple of weeks, but as the old saying goes: ‘Once you arrive in Heartcross, you never want to leave…’
I adore Christie Barlow’s Love Heart Lane series and of course I’m looking forward to the two books that will be published this year. I love the covers and titles and to be honest I don’t even read the blurbs anymore because they are auto reads for me. A Winter Wedding at Starcross Manor has a gorgeous cover but as of yet it has no blurb but I am intrigued to see who will be getting married. It will be published on September 28th.
There are no covers for the new books from Erin Green. Nor are there any blurbs for either of the two books but I loved her From Shetland With Love series so much that I know I’ll love these books to and will keep them on my wish list until publication day. Summer Dreams at the Lakeside Cottage will be published on May 25th and Christmas Wishes at the Lakeside Cottage will be published on September 28th.
Fly Me to Moongate Manor will be published on April 13th.
Amanda Cox is living in New York with a non-committal boyfriend and a student loan that threatens to crush her. That is, until she enters a raffle for a manor house in the British countryside of Northumberland – and wins...
Kate Forster is an author who I feel goes under the radar and one who deserves a wider reading audience. I discovered her books in 2021 and since then have read everything that she has published. Her books are entertaining reads and I really love her Christmas books. Fly Me to Moongate Manor caught my attention whilst browsing on Amazon simply for its title. The blurb really doesn’t give much away but I am looking forward to reading it.
Betrayal will be published on July 6th.
Eve should never have married Don Hathaway. Yes, he gave her two beautiful children - Olly and Tabitha - but he is a bully.
Worse than that, he hurts her.
But, after one drunken rage too many, she has the courage to leave him. Eve is warned that it's a difficult path, yet she needs to give her children hope for the future.
Don, however, is bitter. And getting away entirely from him proves impossible.
Until the day, Eve tries to teach him a lesson - and it all goes horribly wrong.
Eve loves her children but now she carries a terrible burden that she dares not share. Has she betrayed her and her children's futures?
Lesley Pearse alongside Lucinda Riley is my all time favourite author and in fact it was a Lesley Pearse book that first started my blogging journey and how my friendship with Sharon began. I have read everything she has ever published and although last years book, Deception, may have not been my favourite of hers she really is an auto read author for me and I was delighted to find news of her next book to be published, Betrayal which arrives on July 6th.
The Sunrise Sisterhood will be published on May 25th.
Three generations of women, and the summer that saved them.
The holidays are here, and in Salcombe, Liz longs for the arrival of her god-daughters, Skye and Clare and Clare's daughter baby Ivy. After years on her own, she needs help to save the catering business she built with Clare's late mother, Jen.
However, half-sisters Skye and Clare couldn't be more different, struggling with family secrets and hidden jealousies. As the women navigate this unexpected summer together, truths are revealed and their relationships are put to the test.
The Sunrise Sisterhood by Cathy Bramley does not have a cover yet but I will certainly be reading it. I adore Cathy’s books and love that she is now publishing two books a year, a summer and Christmas book. I can’t wait for a warm summers day to sit in the garden and to read this book as I know with Cathy I am always guaranteed a good read.
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